Qushuiting Street (Source:sdphoto.com.cn. Photo by Li Hongmei)

　　Qushuiting Street (Source:sdphoto.com.cn. Photo by Li Hongmei)

　　Qushuiting Street (Source:sdphoto.com.cn. Photo by Li Hongmei)

　　Qushui Street is a world-famous old street with historical and cultural characteristics in Jinan, the City of Springs. It lies to the north of Daming Lake and south of Xigeng Street, east of the northern gate of Dewang Palace and west of Jinan Fuxue Confucian Temple. Spring water from the Pearl Spring and the Palace Pool runs along Qushuiting Street. On one side of the street, there is beautiful scenery of old houses with broken tiles, and on the other side, there is crystal spring water where nearby residents rinsing rice and washing clothes. Now, the street still remains the beautiful scenery of "springs bubbling in every yard and weeping willows surrounding every door" just as The Travel Journal of Lao Can described.

　　Qushui Street features rich cultural flavor. A street name like this can be regarded as a cultural resource of Jinan, which condenses the essence of history and culture, providing a beneficial reference for place names in the future. The new place names should pay more attention to the uniqueness, richness, inheritance and special artistic quality as well as integrity.